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Tell the House:

Vote No on the Reconciliation Package

The proposals, by both chambers, cause too much harm at too high a price for our communities.

These proposals will result in injury. They do not reflect our faith values.

Since February, both chambers of Congress have been negotiating budget proposals that will advance a cruel calculus: to extend tax cuts for the wealthy and billionaire few, to ramp-up a misguided and counterproductive immigration agenda, they are taking healthcare and food assistance – basic needs spending – away from everyday, average Americans.

From the many to fund the few. Cutting the caring programs to bulk up the draconian programs.

It's been a bad proposal for America, it remains a bad deal for America: for our communities and our pocketbooks, for our neighbors both the un-documented, and legally allowed, as well as our kith and kin of humble means.

We've had multiple actions on this topic during 2025 so far, but now, the action is simple -- tell your House member to "Vote No" on the Reconciliation bill.

As proposed, the current package would:

Enact the largest cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in history, dramatically shifting costs to the states by requiring them to absorb a greater percentage of administrative expenses.

Cause at least 13.7 million to lose their health insurance, according to the Congressional Budget Office. This bill adds new costs to low-income individuals on Medicaid, including individuals living just above poverty.

Skew the tax system toward the wealthiest in our country, leaving out the lowest income working families, and adding trillions to our deficit.

Roll back clean energy tax credits which will drive up household energy bills by hundreds of dollars. This, at a time when families are already struggling with cost-of-living and economic uncertainty, it will make daily life costlier.

Deny access to vital programs for refugees, asylees, victime of human trafficking and domestic violence, as well as other lawfully present, taxpaying immigrants.

As Unitarian Universalists, we view what is being proposed as the essence of what Rev. William Barber, II and the Poor People's Campaign: NCMR described as "federal policy violence."

Send our message to your House members now, please don’t fail to respond. Unity of purpose in the minority and a slim few, principled actors in the majority, can make a difference. ACT NOW!

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UU Grounding:

As of General Assembly 2024, as Unitarian Universalists, we have agreed to “adopt new language on core religious values.” We agree love is the power that holds us together and is at the center of our shared values. The values we share include all the following, which we hold as inseparable and deeply interconnected: Interdependence, Pluralism, Justice, Transformation, Generosity, and Equity. (Read more on the Article II revision process.) With these agreed core religious values in mind, we also ground our call for support of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in the following Unitarian Universalist Statements:

Protect the Dreamers, the Recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) with a Pathway to Permanent Residence, 2023 Action of Immediate Witness
Undoing Systemic White Supremacy: A Call to Prophetic Action, 2021 Statement of Conscience
Protect the Rights of Immigrants and Asylum Seekers, 2019 Action of Immediate Witness
End Family Separation and Detention of Asylum Seekers and Abolish ICE, 2018 Action of Immediate Witness
Build Solidarity with our Muslim Neighbors, 2016 Action of Immediate Witness
End Immigrant Child and Family Detention Now, 2015 Action of Immediate Witness
Immigration as a Moral Issue, 2013 Statement of Conscience

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Tell the House:

Vote No on the Reconciliation Package

Both proposals, by both chambers, cause too much harm at too high a price for our communities.

These proposals will result in injury. They do not reflect our faith values.

Urgency Highlight:

The budget proposal package takes from the many to fund the few. It cuts caring programs to supercharge draconian programs.

It's a bad deal for America: for our communities and our pocketbooks, for our immigrant neighbors, for our kith and kin of humble means. for future generations.

Tell your House member to "Vote No" on the Reconciliation bill.

Let us urge Congress, now the House, to show moral courage.

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Subject: Vote No on Budget Reconciliation -- The current proposal is a moral failure

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As a constituent and person inspired by Unitarian Universalist religious values, I urge you to VOTE NO on the budget reconciliation bill, as drafted, when it comes before you. Slow down. This bill is too complicated to pass without understanding its ramifications. The current proposal is a moral failure and must not proceed for passage and signature as drafted. My faith teaches me to demand for others, for the stranger, the same dignity I demand for myself. In contrast, this bill is an assault on what it means to be a generous, charitable, forgiving, and helpful American people. Among its most troubling elements, the bill: - Includes the largest cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in history - Will cause at least 13.7 million to lose their health insurance, according to the Congressional Budget Office - Is skewed to the wealthiest in our country, leaving out the lowest-income working families - Adds trillions to our deficit, bestowing upon our progeny and future generations insurmountable debt - Will drive up household energy bills by hundreds of dollars as it rolls back clean energy tax credits - Asks too high a price of refugees, asylees, victims of trafficking, and domestic violence - Undermines our commitments to lawfully present, taxpaying immigrants - Harms and traumatizes our communities in pursuit of undocumented people Congress must not endorse and then fund these harms at the expense of everyday needs like food for children and low-income families, healthcare, housing, or the disappearance of our immigrant neighbors. Please slow down, scrutinize the policy impacts, and ask if the American people want this outcome achieved this way. Those in my community and networks do not like this proposal. The more we learn about it, the less we agree that it reflects American values. Please carefully consider the implications of your vote on this matter. My faith calls me to speak up on this matter, and I believe a NO VOTE is appropriate and called for.

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UU Grounding:

Protect the Dreamers, the Recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) with a Pathway to Permanent Residence, 2023 Action of Immediate Witness

Undoing Systemic White Supremacy: A Call to Prophetic Action, 2021 Statement of Conscience

Protect the Rights of Immigrants and Asylum Seekers, 2019 Action of Immediate Witness

End Family Separation and Detention of Asylum Seekers and Abolish ICE, 2018 Action of Immediate Witness

Build Solidarity with our Muslim Neighbors, 2016 Action of Immediate Witness

End Immigrant Child and Family Detention Now, 2015 Action of Immediate Witness

Immigration as a Moral Issue, 2013 Statement of Conscience

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UU Grounding:

Protect the Dreamers, the Recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) with a Pathway to Permanent Residence, 2023 Action of Immediate Witness

Undoing Systemic White Supremacy: A Call to Prophetic Action, 2021 Statement of Conscience

Protect the Rights of Immigrants and Asylum Seekers, 2019 Action of Immediate Witness

End Family Separation and Detention of Asylum Seekers and Abolish ICE, 2018 Action of Immediate Witness

Build Solidarity with our Muslim Neighbors, 2016 Action of Immediate Witness

End Immigrant Child and Family Detention Now, 2015 Action of Immediate Witness

Immigration as a Moral Issue, 2013 Statement of Conscience

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